The Misfit Farmer

In 2019, I started a Wordpress blog called the Misfit Farmer on which I amassed quite a collection of sparsely read verbiage. It often felt like I was blogging into the wind, so a year or so ago I decided to experiment with a Substack newsletter, in an attempt to bring my verbiage to the masses. For the last year, I have double posted my weekly mi...

In Shelby, we have a new park in which all the ball fields are meticulously lined and delineated for one singular sport– soccer– which is remarkable, considering it would have been unthinkable in a rural southern county decades ago.

I know because I grew up in Richmond County, North Carolina. We were the second poorest county in the state, but by golly that didn’t s...

“All happy goat farmers are alike; each unhappy goat farmer is unhappy in his own way.”

-Leo Tolstoy

Any goat farmer will know immediately what Tolstoy meant by this. There are a million different ways goats can escape, and only one way to keep them contained–an island. For my day job I cover 45 counties, roughly half of the state, and on multiple occasi...